A dangerous new terrorist group has been identified by the governments
of the Western world who fear it already has operatives all over
the globe and is an imminent threat to security.

The new group has been identified as the "T-shirt
wearing terrorists".

I jest of course, the government has not identified
a new axis of evil that will keep you scrubbing at your soiled
underwear for another few years. However, federal officials, police
and security guards the world over continue to harass and arrest
innocent people going about their daily business for wearing what
are deemed to be "offensive" or "threatening"
t-shirts.

An airline passenger has claimed that a security
guard threatened to arrest him because he was wearing a T-shirt
showing a cartoon robot with a gun.

Brad Jayakody, 30, from London, said he was stopped from passing
through security at Heathrow's Terminal 5 after his Transformers
T-shirt was deemed 'offensive.'

Mr Jayakody said the first guard started joking with him about
the Transformers character depicted on his French Connection
T-shirt.

'"Then he explains that since Megatron is holding a gun,
I'm not allowed to fly,' he said.

It appears that Britain is safe from cartoon robot
gun attacks, at least. I for one will no longer be cowering beneath
the duvet every night at the thought of Starscream breaking through
British air defenses and utilizing his signature weapon, the null
ray, which can disrupt the flow of electricity in any circuitry
it hits for brief periods, effectively rendering any electronic
device or machine temporarily inoperable.

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Yes, this story is currently doing the rounds as
the butt of many jokes and the topic of many witty blog postings,
probably not as witty as my own, however, there are serious concerns
to take into account because this is most certainly not an isolated
incident.

Consider the
case of a student at Bellbrook High School in Ohio.
The unnamed teenager chose to wear a T-shirt with the words "not
my president" superimposed over a picture of President Bush.
When a crosshair was added to the design, two students came forward
and complained to the school administrators. The Assistant Principal
then made the decision to call the FBI because the high school
kid could have been a terrorist planning to assassinate Bush.
What's even more absurd is that the FBI actually treated the case
with the utmost significance and the investigation was eventually
turned over to the Secret Service!

In a gut-wrenching climax to the story, the two
kids who snitched on the teenage terrorist were praised as heroes.
The Assistant Principal said they had complied with the demand
of the government - that citizens stand together with homeland
security and keep an eye out for potential terrorist activity,
for this, he was proud of them.

Now take the case of a 14 year old from Lancaster,
PA who was reprimanded
for wearing a t-shirt with the image of a gun, printed
on the front and back — a shirt the Penn Manor freshman
wore to honor his uncle, a soldier in the U.S. Army fighting in
Iraq.

How about the 80
year veteran who was arrested at a mall for wearing
an anti-war t-shirt. The shirt was splotched with red and emblazoned
with a simple message about the fatalities of the Iraq war: "4,000
troops, 1 million Iraqis dead. Enough."

Consider the t-shirt
seller from New Orleans who was investigated by Homeland
Security officials for selling anti-FEMA T-shirts, a reflection
of his frustration with the federal government's response to the
storm that left him homeless and unemployed.

Two more terrorists were identified as a Texas couple arrested
and charged with trespassing in 2004 after they refused
to cover up homemade T-shirts with anti-Bush slogans. The front
of the T-shirts bore the international symbol for "no"
superimposed over the word "Bush." The back of Nicole
Rank's T-shirt said "Love America, Hate Bush." On the
back of Jeffery Rank's T-shirt was the message "Regime Change
Starts at Home."

These are the real threats to the free world. Forget
wide-open borders and the daily influx of totally undocumented
populations into our countries, don't bother focusing on the small
rag tag groups of known violent radicals, we need to put all our
efforts into routing out high school children and old men with
political T-shirts, those who wear pictures of guns, and guys
sporting transformers merchandise.